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Why?

Because it improves the network performance. Some of us have found that moving to XFS from ext3 seems to remove a bottleneck on the transfers between the computer desktop and the Linkstation. The amount of improvement may vary but is significant and quite beneficial. Transfers for one user showed a tranfer rate about 2 to 2.5 time the original stock rate on an HG, upgraded to FreeLink, a 2.6 kernel and XFS.

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ext3

XFS

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Difference (%)

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Prerequisites

Custom Kernel

You need a custom Kernel running the LS. As long as everything works it is regardless if you run it via loader.o or if you use UBoot.

Knowing the risks

IF something goes wrong then it is quite sure that you will have to connect the hdd to a workstation running Linux as there is no XFS-Support in EM Mode.